Western Australian Current Acts

SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 81

81 .         Compensation for injury to offenders

        (1)         An offender, while doing community work or community corrections activities under a community corrections order is to be regarded for the purposes of the Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 2023 as a worker employed by the Crown.

        (2)         For the purposes of the Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 2023 an offender’s weekly earnings shall be taken to be the amount that the Minister considers reasonable in the circumstances.

        [Section 81 amended: No. 42 of 2004 s. 174; No. 21 of 2023 s. 709(2).]